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The pricing is a bit more expensive than domestic Yuanfang mobile phones. Of course, this is due to the impact of the exchange rate.

In fact, it is very easy for people in developed countries to buy long-distance mobile phones. Even the most basic π phone can be bought for only a quarter or a fifth of a month's salary.

According to Gao Yuan's estimation, the Pi phone will be profitable as long as 20 million units can be sold.

This is mainly because the Pi phone and the Yuanfang phone have the same origin, so as long as one is developed, the other will also be developed.

Only one R&D cost needs to be paid.

The main costs of Pi mobile phones at present are labor costs and factory construction costs. The wages in Australia are much higher than in China.

When 20 million units are sold, the net profit will be about US$1 billion. When 30 million units are sold, the net profit will reach US$10 billion.

If the sales volume in the first year can reach 50 million or even 100 million units, the profit will probably reach more than 150 billion US dollars, which is equivalent to more than 1 trillion RMB.

Even if a part of it was given to Musk, Gao Yuan's profit would be a terrifying 900 billion RMB.

Combined with Yuanfang Auto, Yuanfang Mobile and other industries, Yuanfang Group's annual net profit will reach an astonishing 2 trillion RMB.

But there are still many areas where money will need to be spent in the future, especially space exploration, which requires huge investments in research and development.

Gao Yuan did this on his own, without any government support, so the funds required were enormous.

Those scientific researchers are among the most elite in the world. Their annual salary starts at one million. They also have countless scientific research assistants, supporting facilities, and many aspects of cooperation, all of which require money.

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Musk's live broadcast was unprecedented, with approximately 300 million people around the world watching it.

On foreign websites, Musk’s live broadcast clips have received hundreds of thousands or millions of likes.

Following the same trend, the π mobile phone sold out instantly, with sales exceeding eight million in just twelve hours and exceeding twelve million units in twenty-four hours.

Seeing this impressive data, Musk lost his composure.

The reason why Fruit Group has become the company with the highest market value in the world is that their main business, Fruit mobile phones, have annual sales of more than 200 million units, nearly 300 million units.

On average, they sell 800,000 phones worldwide every day, and 24 million phones a month.

The sales of Pi phone in one day equaled the sales of Apple phone in half a month.

"Mr. Gao, I have reason to believe that you will challenge the throne of the world's richest man." Musk congratulated, "The performance of the Pi phone is better than that of the iPhone. Once it is equipped with the super chip you developed, its sales will far exceed that of the iPhone."

"Then you should be the richest man." Gao Yuan said with a smile.

The Pi phone nominally belongs to Musk, and Gao Yuan only has control over it.

Once the Pi phone surpasses the Apple phone, Musk will become the world's richest man in public, and Gao Yuan will only be the world's richest man in private.

This is also good. There is no need to show up in front of too many people. Making a fortune quietly is the lofty goal.

Moreover, the sales rights of the Pi phone are in Musk's hands, and Musk will also make a lot of money.

"Hahaha, Mr. Gao, we two richest men have joined forces. I believe that the future business world will be dominated by the two of us," said Musk.

Gao Yuan now has many industries in the open, but even more industries in secret.

Apart from the Pi mobile phone, the Australian royal family also has Gao Yuan's trillions of assets, as well as Samsung in South Korea, in which Gao Yuan still has a 20% stake. When Lee Won-ju becomes the helmsman of Samsung Group in the future, Musk believes that Gao Yuan will definitely support Lee Won-ju and buy back all the shares of Samsung Group, so that Lee Won-ju can have % control of Samsung Group.

Add to that Gao Yuan's Yuanfang Group in China, the market value will probably reach an astonishing 30 to 40 trillion yuan.

Horror!
Cooperating with Gao Yuan was the best decision Musk made.

It is hard to imagine how miserable the end would be if you go against Gao Yuan.

the other side.

Fruit mobile headquarters.

China's Yuanfang mobile phone has been squeezing out the market share of fruit phones in the country, but fruit phones don't care.

Because China's sales of fruit phones only account for about one-fifth to one-sixth of the global market, and over the years, many mobile phones have wanted to seize the fruit phone market, but none of them have succeeded.

But during this period of time, their mobile phone market in China has not yet recovered.

Moreover, Samsung Group officially announced that they will equip Samsung mobile phones with 1-nanometer chips next year!

This will be a huge threat to Apple phones.

The sales volume of Samsung mobile phones is not much different from that of Apple mobile phones worldwide.

Once they really equip their phones with 1nm chips, the market for fruit phones will be in jeopardy.

Especially now that Musk has developed the Pi phone, he wants to seize a share of the global mobile phone market.

As a result, Apple phones will face multiple attacks and blockades.

"Everyone, can you come up with an effective strategy?" Cook said, "Whether it is the Pi phone or the Samsung phone, it is a huge threat to our Apple phones."

“And who can tell me how Samsung Group suddenly developed a 1-nanometer chip?”

This news is really too shocking.

When Samsung Group developed the three or four nanometer chips, the Fruit Group did not pay much attention to it, because their company's research and development has always been at the forefront and is even stronger than Samsung Group.

But suddenly Samsung Group was four or five years ahead of them!

They cannot bear this result.

It's like there are two top students in the class. Their levels are similar and their test scores are not much different. But suddenly one day, one of them says that he has been admitted, and has directly skipped the university to study in the graduate department of a top university.

The remaining top student was naturally dumbfounded!
He hasn't even gone to college yet!
"Mr. Cook, I don't think it's important how we developed the 1-nanometer chip. What's important is how we can maintain our market."

A vice president said with some disdain.

Under the leadership of the previous owner, Apple Mobile has grown into a world-renowned company.

As the successor, the gap between Cook and the previous controller is too big.

There is almost no innovation in today's fruit phones, they just keep changing the shells.

The shareholders who hold shares in the fruit company have long been dissatisfied with Cook. If the previous controller was still there, this situation would never happen. "Mr. Cook, I think you need to give an explanation to the directors and shareholders of the fruit company."

Another vice president shouted.

"That's right. Why is it that our iPhones are the best in the world, but now they have become like this?"

Others began to point fingers.

Cook was helpless because these vice presidents dared to attack him only after receiving instructions from the shareholders.

Those shareholders are bigwigs on Wall Street who invested in the fruit company many years ago. Coupled with their own influence, Cook is really no match for them.

Even though Cook is the CEO of the fruit company, if the bigwigs are not satisfied, they can replace him at any time.

Even the previous controller, Steve Jobs, was kicked out of the company by these people. If it weren't for the fact that the performance of the Apple company became worse and worse after Jobs was kicked out, they would have had no choice but to let Jobs come back and take control of Apple mobile phones.

Otherwise, Jobs might never return to the fruit company.

As Steve Jobs' successor, Cook is the current controller of Apple phones, on the one hand, because of Jobs' support before his death. His continuous support has allowed him to have a certain say in the company.

On the other hand, it is also because Cook has a good relationship with those shareholders.

But when it comes to financial interests, these bigwigs will not show mercy, no matter how good the relationship is.

"I can give up the position of CEO, but can you find someone more suitable than me?" Cook asked in return, "Can you guarantee that you can do better than me if you take my position?"

After these words were spoken, all the vice presidents fell silent.

Cook is indeed the most suitable candidate at the moment. Although he lacks pioneering spirit, he is still very capable of defending the city. At least after Jobs left, the Apple company did not face any major crisis.

Anyone else who takes over the position of CEO will not do better than Cook, and may even be far worse.

"I called everyone here today to discuss countermeasures, not to discuss who is doing well and who is doing poorly," Cook said. "The pressure from Samsung phones, the pressure from Pi phones, and the pressure from Yuanfang phones from China, Apple has to face three enemies."

"The top priority is to mitigate the impact of these three mobile phone companies."

What Cook didn’t know was that these three mobile phone companies were actually all high-profile.

He thought he was facing three forces, but in fact it was just pressure from afar.

"Take some time to talk to Musk and discuss a suitable method to eliminate our antagonistic relationship. Secondly, find the Samsung Group in South Korea and rely on external forces to put pressure on South Korea, so that South Korea can put pressure on Samsung Group."

"As for the Chinese mobile phone market, the more this situation occurs, the more I think we should raise the price of our mobile phones to let them know that Apple phones are the best phones in China."

People in China are vain. A survey shows that among the people in China who buy Apple phones, a considerable proportion of them are in the service industry or work in factories.

In Cook's country, people working in industries like waiters and workers have a good income.

However, in China, the salaries of waiters and workers are not very high. These people are mostly young people. Although they have no cars or houses, they do not have much pressure relatively speaking.

They don't earn much money, but they have strong consumption concepts.

They often like to buy Apple phones in installments, or save up one or two months' salary to pay in full for a phone.

He is very vain and always feels that he is classy because he uses an Apple phone.

The more the price of fruit phones increases, the more they can meet the psychological needs of these people.

In addition, the second-hand market of Apple phones is also very hot. The price increase of new phones promotes the sales of second-hand phones. When those people see that the second-hand Apple phones have a strong ability to retain their value, they will be more inclined to buy Apple phones.

A mobile phone that I bought for five or six thousand yuan can still be sold for three or four thousand yuan after one or two years.

As for other brands of mobile phones, their price drops by half as soon as they are purchased. These people must feel that this is unsafe and would rather spend more money to buy an Apple phone.

Who can blame the fact that some people in China are die-hard fans of Apple phones?

That afternoon, the Apple mobile phone brand in China issued a notice that due to various reasons, the price of Apple mobile phones in China would increase by 10%.

When this news came out, all Chinese people were shocked.

It caused an uproar on the Internet.

"Fortunately, I bought the Apple phone half a month ago. If I had bought it now, I would have to pay 500 or 600 yuan more."

"People always say that Apple phones are amazing. They dare to raise prices even when sales are declining. I have been using Apple phones for more than ten years and I am used to them."

"To be honest, the Apple phone is really good, but the other phones are just so-so. Huawei phones are just advertised as great, and Yuanfang phones are new, so how can they possibly compete with Apple phones?"

There are relevant comments under many videos.

In fact, most people follow the herd mentality. They don’t understand which products are good and which are bad. They only learn about the specific situation of a mobile phone by browsing information online and seeing the videos posted by bloggers.

If a blogger says that this phone is good, then they will think that this phone is good. If a blogger criticizes this phone, they will naturally think that this phone is bad.

As for the performance of the mobile phone, if the blogger receives money, he will definitely make up for it in all aspects, and then praise it openly and criticize it secretly.

Apple phones have bribed a lot of review bloggers and internet trolls to improve their reputation.

Coupled with their long-standing brand effect, they actually reversed the downward trend in a short period of time.

After attending the press conference, Gao Yuan stayed in Australia temporarily. Li Wei reported the news to him by phone as soon as possible.

"Since this week, the sales of Yuanfang mobile phones have declined significantly," said Li Wei. "If this continues, it will be difficult for us to achieve sales of 50 million units."

"The most annoying thing is not the paid review bloggers, but the public intellectuals. Even if they don't get paid, they still spare no effort to promote Apple phones and overtly or covertly belittle Yuanfang phones."

"They have never used our phones, they just hack without thinking."

This is the most troublesome thing.

These public intellectuals are completely unreasonable. They only know how to publish one article after another, and they are merciless when throwing dirty water.

"First, limit their traffic on the YouNi APP," Gao Yuan instructed, "and limit the traffic on several other apps at the same time, then collect evidence and file a lawsuit."

There is no need to be polite when dealing with these public intellectuals. Just spreading rumors is enough to get them into trouble.

Gao Yuan could understand that he took the money to hack into Yuanfang's phone, after all, it was for a living. (End of this chapter)